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Gnome: Staring into the abyss(blogs.gnome.org)
292 points by jonrob 14y ago|180 comments
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by jonrob 14y ago
If it was just a case that hardware capacity has reached a point where most of us really don't need to upgrade our computers any more, that would be one thing. But the article also says that many of Apple's decisions are making their laptop
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by jonrob 14y ago
http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/young.html Gives an interesting alternative to business as a zero sum game. Bob Young, founder of Red Hat: "The challenge is to focus on market size, not just market share. When consumer demand
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by jonrob 14y ago
Everyone responding to these stories says that the advertiser did things wrong. If that's the case, what I'd really like to see is a story by someone who's run a successful Facebook campaign. What they did and what measurable impact it had
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by jonrob 14y ago
I have a Toshiba Equium R630 and it works well. It's small and lightweight, although not quite ultrabook standard, and it feels very well put together. I think this model is EOL now, but you can find newer ones. Everything just works.
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Linux Format Pulled from Barnes and Noble(tuxradar.com)
7 points by jonrob 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best way to learn interface development?
1 points by jonrob 14y ago|0 comments
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by jonrob 15y ago
Ah, current sales would make sense. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by jonrob 15y ago
Does anyone else think there's something strange about these figures? There's still more iOS tablets being sold than Android, so how did Android manage to gain market share? Surely for that to happen, Android would have to be selling substa
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by jonrob 15y ago
One site that I think deals with this problem quite well is Metafilter. The comments are full of thoughtful and well reasoned discussions between the readers. Sure, there are problems: sometimes someone posts something that's mean spirited,
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by jonrob 15y ago
Exeter University is open to the public, although they've just done massive amounts of work on it and I don't know how it's turned out. It might be worth taking another look at your nearest Uni library, as I think quite a few are similar to